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New Delhi: As the shadows of the Delhi excise policy case hover over both him and his party, there seems to be fresh trouble brewing for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with him having skipped a fresh Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons in a case related to irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB)...
The ED summons issued to him Monday was the first in the DJB case in which the residences and premises linked to his assistant Bibhav Kumar and his partys treasurer N.D. Gupta were raided by the agency last month...
The DJB case involves a contract awarded to the NKG Infrastructure a Delhi-based infrastructure development company by the Jal Board in 2018, allegedly based on fraudulent certificates and bribes to then-DJB chief engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora...
After the raids, the agency issued a statement alleging that Arora had approved the contract to NKG Infrastructure at an inflated cost and for the contract of Rs 38 crore, only Rs 17 crore was spent for the contracted work, while the remaining was passed on as bribe to the DJB officials and as election funds to the ruling AAP...
Meanwhile, Kejriwal, was summoned by the agency to appear for questioning in the case.. Sources in the ED told ThePrint he would be issued a fresh summons in this case.. By the trajectory of the development, the case is falling into the same pattern as the ongoing Delhi excise policy case in which the CBI first filed an FIR making the former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia an accused...
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